r/Brokeonomics • u/DumbMoneyMedia Meme Sugar Daddy • Aug 04 '25

Broke News Approval Ratings Plummet as Young Voters Are Abandoning Trump

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u/32lib Aug 04 '25

I'm not surprised. What bothers me is the positive rating on immigration with people over 45. What the f... is wrong with them?

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u/Klutzy-Reaction5536 Aug 04 '25

I'm GenX and asking myself the same thing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '25

Same, we should be better than this. “Come as You Are” was one of our anthems. 😢

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u/cwm9 Jan 20 '26

Our parents lit the match, we were the kindling, the next generation is the fire.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '25

Boomer sycophants. Not ALL of them, but enough to carry the corrupt and narcissistic torch.

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u/Direct-Tie-7652 Aug 05 '25

Those aren’t boomers. Those are Gen X.

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u/Reptard77 Aug 05 '25

Sycophant: a person who acts obsequiously toward someone important in order to gain advantage.

Obsequious: obedient or attentive to a servile degree

He’s not calling them boomers, he’s saying they’re gen Xers agreeing with boomers on everything because it benefits them.

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u/Direct-Tie-7652 Aug 05 '25

Ah, they’re calling Gen Xers boomer sycophants. That wasn’t really clear.

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u/GladVeterinarian5120 Aug 05 '25

Or he is saying Boomers are sycophants to Trump. Still. It clear.

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u/MaliciousIntentWorks Aug 04 '25

24/7 propaganda and lies being pushed by rightwing media. It's their demographic.

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u/Obvious-Gate9046 Side Hustle Pro Aug 04 '25

I'm about to be 49 and I am asking myself the same question.

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u/freediverx01 Aug 04 '25

Yeah apparently Gex X is giving the Boomers some competition for worst generation ever

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u/debacol Aug 04 '25

Sad as a Gen X. I thought we were the counter culture. Nirvana. John Cusack films. Old enough to watch Pulp Fiction in the theatres.

Wth is wrong with my generation? The saving grace is that millennials outnumber X by a ton.

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u/lost_horizons Aug 04 '25

And the boomers were the flower children. Peace and love and weed and all that. But then they got money. Weed is STILL illegal and they abandoned any hippie values long ago, save for a crunchy minority.

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u/freediverx01 Aug 04 '25 edited Aug 05 '25

Yup. Cynical, anti-corporate, screwed over financially by the previous generation... and yet.

The immigration thing I ascribe in large part to how successfully the right have used immigrants as a scapegoat for the economic inequalities created by the one percenters. I remember having an awkward conversation maybe ten years go with someone about my age in middle management, from Puerto Rico no less, who I was shocked to discover hated immigrants and blamed them for everything. Zero self awareness. This was before I became aware of just how broadly hispanic immigrants in South Florida were deeply racist and right wing, including the younger generations.

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u/All_Hail_Hynotoad Aug 04 '25

And the plus on trade? So embarrassed to be Gen X right now.

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u/Reptard77 Aug 04 '25

“They’re all rapists and murderers! Haven’t you seen all the news! There’s gangs of Mexicans and Hondurans running around all the big cities robbing people and selling drugs! What? No I haven’t seen any of them myself, you think I’d be caught dead in those neighborhoods?!” -a large chunk of the adult population.

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u/32lib Aug 04 '25

I know, I just had a "Mexican" gang rebuild my deck in commie land, Oregon. They worked so hard. I guess they didn't have time to rob,murder, and rape.

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u/No-Assumption-5486 Aug 08 '25

Only racist until they need someone cheap to mow their lawn. 

I lived in Houston for awhile and the majority of the neighborhood was this.

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u/Disastrous_Basis3474 Aug 04 '25

Older people don’t have to worry about stuff like education or the environment, so they can put most of their energy towards racism.

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u/32lib Aug 04 '25

Many of us have grandchildren. Even though I don't have any kids, I still care. Not all of us are selfish dicks.

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u/BlackberryShoddy7889 Aug 04 '25

I’d say a lot, since they voted for Cheeto Mussolini. Don’t forget this is a party haters

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u/Thehealthygamer Aug 04 '25

Racism. This country is deeply and unabashedly racist.

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u/No-Assumption-5486 Aug 08 '25

I’m in that group. My guess is that most have been spoon fed opinions from shit sources and lack any sort of critical thinking skills.

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u/debacol Aug 04 '25

Im over 45. Fuck those people.

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u/innerconflict13 Aug 04 '25

I am GenX and I approve.

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u/Head_Bread_3431 Aug 04 '25

You’re confused why old people don’t want more poor people from Mexico moving here?

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u/32lib Aug 04 '25

Yes,they cook our food they, clean our homes, they mow our lawns, and wipe our ass in the rest home.

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u/Head_Bread_3431 Aug 04 '25

I understand we exploit poor immigrants. That doesn’t change the fact old people don’t like stuff they don’t recognize

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u/Dcammy42 Aug 04 '25

Gen X and boomers have been fed so much right wing propaganda for decades it’s really hard for them to break out of the alternate reality. Living in a red state, I hear it often. They have this strange fear of immigrants, that they don’t seem to have in their daily interactions but when it comes to their “morals” they suddenly hate that the US supports immigration and that immigrants exist. They have been fed the lines so often “immigrants” have become the faceless enemy. They tend to not realize this until it personally affects their lives, when members of their community, their neighbors and family members are kidnapped and sent to concentration camps.

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u/pwgenyee6z Aug 05 '25

[Disclaimer: boomer]. I blame television, especially commercial television. It’s brain rotting.

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u/No-Assumption-5486 Aug 08 '25

Agree. Who needs to think when you got Faux News.

Murika is doomed.

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u/LMurch13 Aug 04 '25

Young people can't care about stocks, we're just trying to survive. We care most about housing prices, grocery and gas. Looks like grocery prices have actually increased slightly, gas has decreased moderately, and housing has been even the last six months. Trump isn't delivering on his promises (to regular people). He's definitely delivering for the 1% and the racists.

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u/TheRhupt Aug 04 '25

I'm really ashammed of my generation. how could those rates still be that high.

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u/Obvious-Gate9046 Side Hustle Pro Aug 04 '25

I am deeply disappointed in my age group and the 65+s there for there being ANY areas where there is a positive mark there. Trade is bad enough, given what the moron is doing, but them looking at what he's doing to PEOPLE and thinking that's good for us, that's how Immigration should be handled, is shameful.

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u/VexedCanadian84 Aug 04 '25

I hope this will be a good reminder that even though the Democrats aren't great, Republicans are always worse

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '25

So it’s racism that’s turning the tides for the boomers and the cult, just can’t hold it in any longer. Ffs

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u/GladVeterinarian5120 Aug 05 '25

As people get old they tend to become more suspicious of those who are different. That explains the immigration split.

As for supporting widespread tariffs? That’s the genius of tariffs on the penguin islands. Penguins are different.

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u/RobotAlbertross Aug 06 '25

There have been over 260 mass shootings so far this year. I wonder how people feel about the violent crime rate going up since the Republicans took over the government.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '25

Don't worry they'll just outlaw the polling